Titlebook: Significance; Exploring the Nature Paul Beynon-Davies Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011 busines

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Data: Form to inform,speak of both data and information transmission, of data stores and information stores, and of data manipulation and information processing. In this chapter we elaborate upon the nature of what we referred to in Chapter 2 as forma. Forma relates to the physical and empirics levels of signs upon the

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Data systems: Patterns of forma,ma. Symbols relate together and are operated upon in data systems. A data system is a physical symbol system consisting of physical patterns (symbols) which can be combined into structures and manipulated to produce new structures. We suggest a particular interest in those data systems in which the

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Information: In-form to perform,ment with no evidence of, what we referred to in Chapter 4 as modulation, conveys no information. In other words, if the environment is entirely uniform in nature then it will have no effects upon organisms. Fortunately, differences are endlessly transmitted around the physical environment. Differen

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Activity: Performa,n this idea in his classic work: . (Goffman, 1969). This led to what would become known as the dramaturgical perspective in sociology. The essence of this perspective is that we all perform every moment of our lives in the sense of enacting conventional patterns of behaviour. We all take on many rol

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Activity systems: Patterns of performa,on he considered the related question of what is society and came fundamentally to the conclusion that society is much more than a mere aggregation of individual actors. Instead, society is a system consisting of the multitude of individual actors, relationships and actions. Such actors through thei

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Signs: Units of significance,ritically important in all forms of activity, including business. Signs are important because they establish what it is to be human. Without signs we could not think, we could not communicate what we think and we could not ensure that we collaborate successfully in our working, home and leisure activity.

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Data: Form to inform,semiotics ladder. Part of the reason for considering the nature of forma is that doing so helps us to better understand and to provide greater precision to the concept of data as well as highlighting the many differences between data and information.